I was discussing various stuff on IRC and one of my friends mentioned this great article, written by his company, discussing various "example programs" submitted to his company as part of a resume. http://i4031.net/article/2003/08/badcode.pH.

Some choice examples from the article:
From some C code: 
...
* Disclaimer: This source code has NOT been compiled.
*             I would estimate a couple more hours of development to
*             eliminate any typos and other compile time errors.
*             Then the fun starts.
...
*/

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The ever popular perl version of arrays: 
my ($f0,  $f1,  $f2,  $f3,  $f4,  $f5,  $f6,  $f7,  $f8,  $f9);
my ($f10, $f11, $f12, $f13, $f14, $f15, $f16, $f17, $f18, $f19);
my ($f20);
...
for ($idx = 0; $idx < $NUMBER_OF_ITEMS; $idx++) {

  $name = "mn" . $idx;
  $refval = eval "\$f". $idx;
  ...
}

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And my favorite: 
$ref_urlsWithoutQueryStringTranslatedPassOne =
 translatePassOneWithoutQueryStringURLs($self->{urlsTrainingNonQueryGo
+od}, $self->{CONSTANTS});
$ref_urlsWithoutQueryStringTranslatedPassOnePostGrouping =
 groupWithoutQueryStringURLsAfterPassOneTranslation($ref_urlsWithoutQu
+eryStringTranslatedPassOne,
 $self->{CONSTANTS});

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So what kind of terrible code have you seen or written in your time as programmers?

Update: I just want to make this absolutely clear. This article is not, in any way written by a company. Or a business. Or any sort of inanimate object. It if in fact, written by a human. I think. At least vaguely humanish. Kind of. Mostly.

In reply to The joys of bad code by BUU

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